First the husband and I spent ages procrastinating. Trying to agree on what we wanted and when.

Then we panicked realising that we were running out of time, although whatever we do now we won't get to see the fruits of our labours until well into 2012.

To book tickets we have to choose what you want and actually put down some cash*. But there are no guarantees that, whatever we choose, we'll end up with any tickets.

We have to play the numbers game. If we just choose just one event we might get lucky and get the tickets. But far better to hedge our bets and choose several embryos events and hope to end up with at least one. Of course if we get everything that we bid for we'll end up with way more than we wanted, and it will be an awful lot more expensive than anticipated.

This process reminds me of something, I just can't quite put my finger on it.

*Although to be fair, this is only taken if you have been successful in getting the tickets.

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Isn't it weird how some people can make a sexual innuendos out of anything, and we IFers can make IF innuendos out of anything? Of ocurse the sexual innuendos are funny to everyone, but you have to be a member of our exclusive IF club to get our jokes!

Way back in 1995, I lived in Atlanta when we were similarly gripped with Olympics fever preparing for the 1996 games. There was a similar process and it was back when buying things on the Internet was only in its toddlerhood. I remember my mother and I were in charge of buying tickets for our entire family because we were the only people who could figure out how to do it.

It's neat and crazy what IF can do to your life. I swear the word embryos is all over the internet in my life too. At work I log onto a website to accesss my tax and paycheck info. The weblink is spelled something like intersource but it looks so familiar to another word that I often see...

that logo always makes me want to take a blunt butter knife and gouge out my eyeballs - what on earth were they thinking?

You should do what most sane people do when an olympics is on - leave the country. I was in Bora Bora for Sydney 2000, if we had stayed in London we were planning Mauritius... but then neither of us have any interest in sport.